| 单词 | garden spot |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgarden spot garden spot n. U.S. (a) a garden or a place suitable for a garden; a garden plot; (b) a region noted for its fertility or natural beauty. ΚΠ 1617 J. Boys Expos. Proper Psalmes: 2nd Pt. 41 Beside the Garden spot, there be chambers, and halls, and parlours. 1655 F. Raworth Jacobs Ladder 148 In England..we are but a spot of Christs Kingdom, though I hope, a Garden-spot. 1767 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1860) II. 87/1 Agreed with the Rev. Peter Clark to hire his House,..and a garden spot. 1813 Niles' Reg. 4 317/2 The Rapids of the Miami may justly be termed the ‘garden spot’ of the territory. 1898 T. N. Page Red Rock 298 It's the garden spot of the world—the money's jest layin' round to waste on the ground. 1992 J. A. Hostetler in R.-M. Testa After Fire Foreword p. xiv An area long known as ‘the Garden Spot of America’. 2015 St. Joseph (Missouri) News-Press (Nexis) 3 Sept. For decades, Flower Society members have tended a small garden spot. < as lemmas |
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